Chapter IV - Creation
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strated his control "over the beasts of the field." Un-
strated his control "over the beasts of the field." Un-
derstanding Life not at the mercy of death, and Spirit
superior to matter, saved the prophet from the hungry
lions. To conclude an animal is superior to man, that
matter is power, and Life in the body, leaves man in
the hour of danger a Samson with eyes plucked out:
his strength a spectacle of weakness. When immor-
tality is better understood, there will follow an exercise
of capacity unknown to mortals; man will become a
hundred fold more a man, when he holds himself in
the science of being, starting from the basis of Spirit.
In Truth there is endless strength and immortality.
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"And God said, let us make man in our image, after
"And God said, let us make man in our image, after
our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish
of the sea and over the fowls of the air and over the
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cattle and over all the earth."
cattle and over all the earth."
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The "Us" used in
The "Us" used in
this quotation referred to Intelligence, the creative
Wisdom, and expressed plurality; therefore if God is
a person it plainly implied more than one God; but to
gain the right interpretation, which is the spiritual
sense of this saying, is to admit the "Us" referred to,
Life, Truth and Love; even the triune Principle that
reveals the Life that is Truth, and the Truth that is
Life, and both God, and God, Love. "Let them have
dominion," also signifies plurality, for man was the
generic name of mankind; in contradistinction to the
belief that God made one man, and man made the rest
of his kind, science reveals the fact that He made all.
The photographer transfers the likeness of one or more
objects, according to the number present, and we
admit the likeness of three is not one, and vice versa;
therefore, as man is the likeness of God, the plain ex-
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pression, "let us make man," and "let them have do-
pression, "let us make man," and "let them have do-
minion," is conclusive evidence that God made man
the idea of infinite mind, and was the plural, Life,
Love and Truth; not a plural person, but Princi-
ple that gave the infinite idea. There could be
no second creation after "all was made that was
made," nor ever a man formed since the full idea of
God was given. "So God created man in His own im-
age, male and female created He them." Hereby we
learn, man was a generic name; also that he reflected
the Principle of male and female, was the likeness of
"Us," the compound Principle that made man. Male
and female cannot be one in person, but are "one in
Principle, and if God is a person his gender would be
both male and female, these being the likenesses of Him,
as the Scripture informs us; but for these differ-
ent personalities or sexes to be found in one per-
son, would be deemed monstrous; hence, male and fe-
male being the likeness and representation of God, we
learn that person is not the image of Him; much less
can He be in person, inasmuch as he is Principle em-
bracing the masculine, feminine, and neuter, repre-
sented by the universe and man. Gender is embraced
in Spirit, else God could never have shadowed forth
from out Himself, the idea of male and female; this
idea comes from Soul and not body, from Principle and
not person. Which, again, furnishes the proof that an
egg is not the origin of man, that seed never produced
a plant, etc. Intelligence "made all that was made,"
and every plant, before it was in the ground; every
mineral, vegetable, and animal, were ideas of the eternal
thought. Supreme and universal mind embraced every